Grad students feel brunt of college tuition hikes

Wayne State University's graduate students will see an 8.5 percent - or about $220 per term - increase over last year in tuition. The University of Michigan's graduate tuition varies from program to program with increases ranging from 5 percent to 12.1 percent, or $300 to $1,000 more per term. University officials say graduate programs are always more expensive than those for undergraduates. With research at their core, they require more specialized training, individualized instruction and state-of-the-art technology. Hilary Ratner, associate provost and dean of Wayne State's graduate school, says "all of those factors converge to create a higher instructional cost per student." Wayne State graduate student Nicole Usiondek is also quoted in the story. A photo of Usiondek accompanies the story.

August 25, 2004

Core Technology Alliance creates top-flight biotech labs at Michigan institutions

Wayne State University is noted in a brief as one of the member institutions of the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, established in 2001. Wayne State, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and the Van Andel Research Institute were awarded $64 million to create a statewide network of biotech labs. Wayne State received the Michigan Center for Genomic Technologies as part of the network to study gene expression.

August 25, 2004

School lunch a throwaway?

Cathy Jen, professor in the department of nutrition and food science at Wayne State, commented on the influence parents have on their children developing healthy eating habits. Jen believes that parents are the most important influences on their children's food choices. "If the parents at home never eat any vegetables or healthy food, the kids won't. If the parents choose variety and do not eat junk food, then the kids will learn," Jen said.

August 25, 2004

Boys' behavior linked to prenatal cocaine exposure

Dr. Virginia Delaney-Black, Wayne State University School of Medicine, is quoted extensively in a story about her research findings recently published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Delaney-Black and her colleagues found that boys exposed to cocaine in their mothers\' womb were much more hyperactive than those with no prenatal cocaine exposure. Boys who experienced persistent cocaine exposure were also more likely to have delayed speech and language development or other problems in central processing, as well as problems with their motor skills and abstract thought than were their peers who experienced little or no exposure to the drug. These findings were not true of the girls involved in the study, the report indicates.

August 25, 2004

Karmanos Institute to build $47M cancer center in Detroit; acquire DMC Cancer Hospital assets

As part of the deal to split from the DMC and build a $47 million clinical cancer center in downtown Detroit, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute has also agreed to maintain a long-term, exclusive partnership with the academic medical center and will strengthen its academic affiliation with Wayne State University.

August 24, 2004

Coverage of the Karmanos Cancer Institute

Coverage of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute announcement was provided by WDET.

August 24, 2004

Medicaid helps keep seniors out of nursing homes

An opinion article notes a study prepared for the Detroit Area Agency on Aging (DAAA) by Wayne State University's Department of Community Medicine. The study found that senior care management programs allow seniors to remain at home despite needing services that qualifies them for nursing home care. The study says there appears to be a high need for this service among seniors in Wayne County, especially in communities that have higher premature deaths compared with the remainder of the state.

August 24, 2004

Residents near WSU complain about parking

Following complaints from apartment dwellers near the Wayne State campus that students were parking in their spots, Detroit officials responded by restricting parking to two to three hours Monday-Friday. Now apartment residents say they are being ticketed and that the city's solution has actually created more problems. Residents from the Second Avenue area were interviewed during the 10 p.m. newscast story.

August 24, 2004

Michigan families forced to live with sacrifices

In a story about the impact of gasoline prices on family budgets, Kurt Metzger, demographics expert in the Center for Urban Studies (CULMA), points out that price increases are most harmful to low-income residents in the Detroit metropolitan area. Cities such as Detroit and Highland Park have the highest concentrations of low-income persons and are not where service industry jobs are being created, he says.

August 24, 2004

Newsman was Detroit TV fixture

A Detroit News obit on longtime Channel 4 news reporter Bob Bennett includes information that memorial contributions may be made to the Bob Bennett Scholarship Fund at Wayne State University. Channel 4 mentioned the scholarship in a news broadcast. The popular Detroit TV newsman, who died Saturday, retired in 2000 after 32 years on the job.

August 24, 2004

U.S. pageant runner-up, 54, is champion for disability rights

A profile by Desiree Cooper on 54-year-old Marva Ways, who is the reigning Ms. Wheelchair Michigan, notes that she is a quadriplegic and has been a "nonstop disability rights advocate for the past 28 years." Ways has continued working, taking positions with organizations like the Developmental Disabilities Institute at Wayne State and the Great Lakes Center for Independent Living.

August 24, 2004

Warrior volleyball picked sixth by coaches

The Wayne State volleyball team was selected to finish in sixth place in the South Division by head coaches of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) in preseason balloting. The coaches chose Northern Michigan University to win the league\'s North Division, and the University of Findlay to take the South Division. The GLIAC proved to be one of Division II's toughest conferences last season, sending three teams to the NCAA II Great Lakes Region Tournament. The volleyball season begins Friday.

August 24, 2004

MSU offers new masters program in intellectual property law

To meet a fast-growing need for attorneys and professionals working in the intellectual property and communications areas, the Michigan State University College of Law has established new master's of law and jurisprudence degree programs in intellectual property and communications law.

August 24, 2004

Detroit Orientation Institute seeks applicants for October program

The Detroit Orientation (DOI) Institute is accepting applications for its fall program scheduled on Oct. 11, 18 and 25. DOI sessions provide a historical perspective and candid look at Detroit and the region.

August 23, 2004

Dennis Archer Foundation

In an interview about the Dennis Archer Foundation's scholarship fund, Archer mentioned that he has alerted Wayne State and other universities to be on the lookout for suitable candidates.

August 23, 2004

Strapped area schools outsource more jobs

Michael Addonizio, associate professor at Wayne State University's College of Education, commented on the move to privatize services once provided by employees at Michigan's public schools. Food, custodial and transportation services, formerly performed by district employees, are examples of jobs being handed over to private companies to save on payroll costs.

August 23, 2004

When it comes to coming trouble, the eyes have it

The Kresge Eye Institute at Wayne State University is mentioned as one of four Michigan institutions that shared $14.8 million in federal funding for eye and vision research in 2003.

August 23, 2004

Business People

Delila Owens, an assistant professor at Wayne State University, was appointed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm to the Michigan Board of Counseling. The board is responsible for licensing professional counselors and has authority to take needed disciplinary action.

August 23, 2004

City planning

Free Press editorial page editor Ron Dzwonkowski notes that Wayne State University experts worked with city planner Constantine Doxiadis on a major Detroit urban plan that was unveiled in 1970. The project called for an extensive mass transit system, an interlocked grid of freeways and a new anchor city on the St. Clair River. Doxiadis' plan, designed to be completed by 2000, never advanced beyond the announcement stage.

August 22, 2004

"Leaders on Leadership" - Anthony Earley

Anthony Earley, chairman and chief executive officer of DTE Energy, was the guest on the \"Leaders on Leadership\" program co-produced by Wayne State University's WSU School of Business Administration and Detroit Public Television. Wayne State students in the audience and host Larry Fobes participated in the discussion focusing on Earley's leadership experiences aboard a US warship; building nuclear power plants on the East Coast; and the challenges facing DTE during last year\'s power outage.

August 22, 2004